"This particular example is in excellent condition. EVERYTHING works as it should. This baby is CLEAN. Even the battery posts are rust / corrosion free. Rare to find such a classic SH in this condition. The only thing to note is that the Portamento knob is slightly bent but works perfectly. Its been like this since i bought it years ago, just stating for full disclosure : )
Great bass / lead machine. So many hits made with this beast. Has a great sequencer / arpeggiator plus CV I/O. Use it as a sequencer for your other analog CV synths!"
"Rare SID Station loaded with OS 1.11 and the Ninja sound set. Other sound sets can be downloaded from Elektron’s website for free and loaded in via SysEx. Includes original box and manual, and a switching PSU with EU plug (6VDC, Center positive)."
First one I've seen with the card inserted. The parameter sticker appears to be solid black while the sticker on this blue model appears to be transparent.
"We had this hooked up and made a quick spontaneous video.
It's not always easy to dial in the sound you're looking for - if that's your thing - but you can sure get a lot of different sounds out of this pedal.
The machine generating bass and chords is a special little animal, more videos of that to come."
"One take just playing some chords on the Solina String Synthesizer - no over dubs. Binson Echorec 2 is the effect source.
It looks like an inflated Solina String Ensemble. Story goes that American ARP sent a bunch of keyboard-less monophonic ARP Explorers to Eminent in Holland in the mid 70's. Eminent incorporated most of these synths in to a huge double manual living room-furniture organ that also included the Solina String Ensemble. A small batch of ARP Explorers were left over and Eminent decided to make a limited, "lightweight" edition : A Solina String Ensemble combined with the ARP Explorer synthesizer. Both fairly limited instruments on their own, the combination of a mono-synth and string machine make them become more than the sum of their parts.
Here in Italy there were many similar combos and the earliest one, The Farfisa Syntorchestra was released the same year, 1975. Which one came first? We don't know, please use the comment section if you know the answer.
The possibility of routing the String Ensemble section into the ARP Explorer filter section is a great tool, the filter of the Explorer is great, adding the mono section vibrato to the string section as well.
There are some bewildering flaws with the Solina String Synthesizer, which makes us think that the production schedule was rather tight when these were made: The ARP Explorer Section seems to emit a ticking noise in certain filter modes (we've confirmed this with other owners of this instrument) There are no separate outputs for the String and Mono section (WHY?!) The mono synth always engages the highest note when you play a chord, whereas on many of the Italian counterparts you can 'prioritise': choose if the Mono section will engage the highest or the lowest note in a chord."
"To close out Weird Week, I decided to pair my Tibetan singing bowl with my Eurorack modular synthesizer. Surprisingly... I think it works. The Make Noise Phonogene is the heart of this patch. Weird Week was a fun little project over the last 5 days. Thanks for tuning in."
"This is a Colossus owner's (@rezfilter ) collection of spontaneous sequences, sounds, and patches created on the Colossus Synthesizer.
The clips in this video were not captured with a high-fidelity audio interface, and in most cases, were recorded with a mobile device for posterity purposes.
Classic organ styling but with good and very useable synth section including white and pink noise, two L.F.O.'s, single oscillator but has a big sound from the sub osc options. Also as portamento, random note generator and of course ... growl. This is Roland's first ever synth.
Brill sound and it's very easy to accidentally sound like early Human League etc :)"
